tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post8151890144592784787..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: The Right triumphsHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-80419954895963507352010-04-28T17:49:48.000+01:002010-04-28T17:49:48.000+01:00Always nice to have anonymous commenters stating t...Always nice to have anonymous commenters stating the obvious.Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-28385805938454502472010-04-27T07:57:27.000+01:002010-04-27T07:57:27.000+01:00You don't really seem to understand Hungarian ...You don't really seem to understand Hungarian politics. Fidesz has ridden to popularity by opposing the introduction of the most basic of market reforms into the public sector, most notably in the health service. Its entire economic package rests on the premise that it can persuade the IMF to raise the acceptable budget deficit to nearly 6%. And it also has a nasty irredentist, nationalist streak that will lead to deteriorating relations with neighbours with large Hungarian minorities, ie Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. <br /><br />They may sit with the EPP in the European Parliament, but they are paternalistic in social policy, in the same sort of way the CSU in Bavaria is, as opposed to the free market FDP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com